AMDAI launches ‘Don’t Surrender to AMD’ public awareness campaign Age-related Macular Degeneration , which affects more than 10 million older Americans, continues to be the leading reason behind vision loss in the United States. The global cost of the condition according to a recent report by AMD Alliance International is approximated at $343 billion, underscoring the need for swift actions to improve awareness of treatment and prevention options. In this year’s AMD Week, from September 18-26 which runs, AMDAI, along with a number of the leading eye-care organizations from 25 countries, provides issued a call to action to doctors, individuals and caregivers through the public awareness advertising campaign Don’t Surrender to AMD.If there is a family history of severe psychotic disorders, I’d really encourage kids in order to avoid cannabis altogether, said senior writer Dr. Tomas Paus, a senior scientist at the Rotman Study Institute in Toronto. If you understand these disorders operate in your family, i would be super then, super careful. Both studies were posted Aug. 26 in JAMA Psychiatry. In Agrawal’s study, researchers performed brain scans on a lot more than 480 twins or siblings as young adults, 262 of whom reported they’d used pot at least one time.